“Frysh” signaled Beyond Dawn’s move from gloomy Swans-influenced post-black metal to significantly less glum electropop. “Frysh” plays like a heavier, harder-driving Air album. The production is spacious, accommodating the deeply textured music. The guitar sound […]
Thy Catafalque, the art metal project of Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai, has been making progressively larger waves in the underground metal scene since relocating to Scotland. Mr. Kátai is something of a folk hero, or […]
Many years (and albums) ago Italy´s Thee Maldoror Kollective (TMK) abandoned their black metal sound for a more eclectic, cut-and-paste experimental approach, creating expansive tracks out of cinematic genre-hopping vignettes, threaded together with horror and science fiction […]
“Animatronic” is bombastic and silly, a combination that has caused some heads to explode in the black metal scene. A BM fatwa was issued after the NWOBHM influenced, keyboard slathered “space metal” of “Nexus Polaris.” […]
Looking back on the early years of The 3rd and the Mortal, it’s not that easy to see why they were considered so groundbreaking, but that’s only because of the host of bands that arrived […]
Released in 2013, SubRosa’s third album More Constant than the Gods is just about everything you’d want and expect from a follow-up to their frequently bludgeoning, emotionally merciless No Help from the Mighty Ones: more power, more beauty, more variety, […]
For several years now Solefald’s Cornelius has expressed his more German musical and cultural interests through his solo project Sturmgeist, playing industrial-tinged black metal with lyrics drawn from twentieth century historical themes. Cornelius recently joined forces […]
Iceland’s Strigaskór nr. 42 have been quietly biding their time since their 1994 album Blot, but with the release of Armadillo they’ve come screaming back with a punchy, precise and hooky hybrid of metal, hardcore and math prog.* Most of […]
The French-Occitan folk outfit Stille Volk’s second album “Ex-uvies” is one strange, beautiful hybrid. The eccentric Pyrenees folk sound is still present, but worked over with a whole assortment of outside influences like prog, death […]
Oh boy, how does one describe Squibb vs. Squibb, Boris Doussy and Mathieu Megamont’s surreal and oddly cosmopolitan trip into the stellar regions of extreme music, without name dropping? The music reminds me of 1970s […]
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